Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : cdd-doc Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://people.debian.org/~tille/debian-med/talks/paper-cdd/debian-cdd.html/ * License : GPL Description : Custom Debian Distribustion documentation
This paper is intended to people who are interested in the philosophy of Custom Debian Distributions and the technique which is used to manage those projects. . It is explained in detail why these are no forks from Debian but reside completely inside the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and which advantages can be gathered by this approach. The concept of meta-packages and user role based menus is explained. In short: This document describes why Custom Debian Distributions are important to the vitality and quality of Debian. Affects on other packages: This package Replaces: subproject-howto Provides: subproject-howto Ben Armstrong agrred that I include (and update) his documentation which can be removed after cdd-doc enters testing. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (499, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED])